With hurricanes causing severe weather in Texas and Florida, the hosts of the Extra! Extra! podcast decided to discuss how newspaper staff members report on weather and the aftermaths of natural disasters.

On this week's Extra! Extra! podcast, hosts Caitlyn Kelleher and Joy Richard speak with MetroWest Daily News Sunday/Metro Editor Robert Haneisen not only about his career at the Framingham-based daily newspaper, but about his self-proclaimed passion for weather. They talk about boot-on-the-ground approach he has taken covering weather-events in the past and how he helps reporters localize national weather stories.

Now in their seventh episode, Richard and Kelleher listen as Haneisen recalled his days as a weather blogger when he inspired fellow storm "geeks" to become National Weather Service certified as a way to chronicle wild weather events.

Haneisen also recalls one of his most intense reporting experiences where he covered a months-long wild fire while working as a journalist in central Florida. This and the advice he gives to new reporters who are stepping into the field for the first time, the conversation is filled with what goes into the writing process.

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